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That's my argument. There's no need to raise taxes. It's all scare tactics from the GOP. In Texas, a hot topic last election was our increased property taxes. The democratic nominee for governor proposed legalizing weed and using those tax dollars to lower property taxes. He lost the "moderates" when he proposed stricter gun control the last time he ran and they never got over it. Conservatives would rather pay extra money and complain about it than legalize the devil's lettuce.
Politics is theatre. They use buzz words to win the ignorant votes. I don't think we'll ever see a return on our taxes because of how much it would take to completely flip the system. Businesses would go bankrupt if we had access to socialized programs, and that goes against the capitalism that the country stands on.
Removing tax havens within the country would also do a fair bit, and people wouldn't notice any difference from that, except that there is a lot more money that the country could spend on more useful things.
Too bad spending money is considered "free speech" and all those tax haven dollars are used to buyout the people with the power to fix that problem
What would be considered corruption in most of the world is just the modus operandi of US politics.